Boarding Home Care level Limited Personal Care is
provided to residents “ho need little care or who need
room ani boarc ani no care at all.

The range of csre which might be given in a
Personal Cure Home is great. In languaze the layman
might understand it would include care which is

now being given in Private Hospitals and Boarding

Homes «

IV. 3ACKGROUND INFORMATION

Trends in Acute Care Hospitalization in British
Columbia’ have enshasized -shorter natient stay days.
The discharge oF patients to the community who in
the past occupied acute care beds have streamlined
the provision of scute care in this province. at
the same time it has forced upon communities such
as ours the care of people who formerly received
eare in our general hospitals or if they could afford

it in private hospitals and Boarding Homes.

a few years ago, the Provincial Government
ceased to issue licenses for the creation of new
Private Hospitals. Adout..the same time 3.C.H.I.S.

wuidertook to provide ixtended Gare to patients who

rn

werg not embulatory and recuired extensive amounts

‘of nursin.: cara.